Friends, in the cricket world, where it becomes difficult to prepare only one champion team for any country, there are so many star cricketers in our Indian team today that not one or two, but three champion teams can be made by combining them. In fact, the biggest contribution of this change in Indian cricket is given to the great Indian batsman Rahul Dravid.
Because he has given the Indian team cricketers like Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Rithvi Shah, Shubh Mangil and Sanju Samson. And in today's article, we are going to tell you about the life story of Rahul Dravid, who is said to be an example of simplicity. By knowing this, you will understand why he is called the hero of cricket today. Friends, Rahul Dravid is such an amazing cricketer and human being who has not only brought Indian cricket to new heights with his talent, but even after retirement, he is sending Team India to the new peak of success with his coaching.
And today the situation is that our Indian team also has the courage to defeat the biggest cricket team in the world. And Rahul Dravid has not only improved the present of Indian cricket with his coaching, but through it he is also making the future of Indian cricket better. So friends, Rahul Dravid was born on 11th January 1973 in Indore city of Madhya Pradesh. But after a few months of his birth, his Maratha Brahmar family shifted from Indore to Bangalore.
Because of which he spent most of his life in Bangalore. Now that Dravid belongs to a Maratha family, so his mother tongue is also Marathi. But for your information, tell me that apart from Marathi, he also speaks Kannada, Hindi and English very well. Speaking of the family, in Dravid's family, apart from his parents, there is also a younger brother Vijay and his father Sharad Dravid used to work in a GM factory. And because of this job of his father, Dravid's name became Jemi. While his mother Pushpa used to be an architecture professor at Bangalore University. And because of being a mother's professor, from the very beginning, there used to be a study environment in his house. And because of this, Dravid has always been very serious about his studies.
By the way, if we talk about the studies of Rahul Dravid, he got his bachelor's degree from Bangalore's St. Joseph College of Commerce from the St. Joseph College of Commerce from the St. Joseph Boys High School in Bangalore. After that, he also studied MBA from Bangalore's St. Joseph College of Business Administration. And during this study, his selection took place in India's National Cricket Team. Now if we talk about cricket, Dravid started playing cricket at the age of 11 years old. Actually, his father Sharad was very fond of watching cricket and because of this fondness of his father, Dravid started playing cricket. Now because he was interested in volleyball from the very beginning, his entire focus was always on volleyball.
In fact, Dravid had a wonderful tendency to play volleyball from birth. And he was also very hardworking, because of which he started to achieve success from the very beginning of his cricket career. His parents had also quickly recognized his talent and that is why he always supported his son in making his career.
Friends, if we look at it, then Dravid's talent was first recognized by an ancient Indian cricketer named K.K. Tarapur. Actually, at that time, Dravid used to play cricket for his school and K.K. Tarapur was training the children of the school in the summer camp in Chinnaswami Stadium. During that training, Dravid had set up a tent for his school team and K. K. Tarapur was very impressed by his talent. Also, because of this talent, Dravid's name had also reached the world of cricket and some big names.
And in the same way, he was always successful in his cricket career from the days of school. Because of which, in a very short time, his selection was made in the under-15 team of Karnataka. Now, for Dravid, this first Ranji season of his career was quite magnificent because he had made a total of 380 runs from an average of 63.3 runs in this season, including his two shots. And after that, he continued to play Ranji and Dilip Trophy for many years and with his excellent performance, he made everyone very happy. Now if we talk about international cricket, then Rahul Dravid's international career began in 1996, when he was chosen to replace Vinod Kambli in the team during a one-day series against Sri Lanka. In addition, his test career also began in 1996. In fact, during a test series against England, Sanjay Manjrekar got injured and Rahul Dravid was placed in the test team instead of him. Now for Dravid, his international test career was very good from the beginning, where he played a great game of 95 runs in his debut inning. But if we talk about his one-day career, it was very difficult in the beginning. Because Dravid was not able to perform well in his initial one-day matches. In addition, his pace of making runs also used to be a little slow, due to which he was tagged as a slow batsman. Many experts even said that Dravid was not made to play one-day and that he would never be able to become a successful one-day player. But friends, it was not as easy to break Dravid's patience as people thought. After this trial, he worked hard day and night to improve his way of playing bats and also increased his pace of making runs. And today we know very well about the result of his hard work. Because today Dravid is not only included in India, but also in the best test and one-day batsmen of world cricket. He has made a total of 10,889 runs in his test career and one-day career, including 48 runs and 146 runs. Also, when Dravid used to get down on the crease to play bats, he was the most difficult one to out for the batsmen of the opposition team.
In fact, his specialty was that he never gave his wicket to the batsman easily. No matter how many wickets fell on the other side, but Dravid would stay firm from one side to the end. And that's why he is also called Mr. Dependable or The Wall. And friends, there is no doubt that Dravid has seen countless successes in his cricket career. But his specialty has been that he never let his success be dependent on himself. And he always kept his simplicity. He was such a cricketer who never got stuck in any dispute in his entire career. He always respected his fans and tried to meet them as much as possible.
Sometimes he even visited his fans' home to meet them. And all these things and habits make him one of the most down-to-earth people in the world. In 2012, Dravid had taken initiation from all the elements of cricket. But his retirement could not keep him away from cricket. And today he is trying to improve the present and future of Indian cricket through his coaching.
In 2016, after taking initiation, Rahul Dravid took the post of head coach of India U19 and India A team. And since then he has been looking for more than one direction in Indian cricket. By the way, for your information, The Indian team is given to Rishabh Pant, Shreya Sayyar, Prithvi Shah, Shubhman Gill, Sanju Samson and many other young talents like Ishaan Kishan.
The biggest share is given to Rahul Dravid. Because he has done the work of training all these cricketers and making them play. Apart from this, recently he was sent as the head coach of the young Indian cricket team who went on a tour of Sri Lanka. And our young Indian team has also done a great job in their follow-up. And friends, the way Rahul Dravid is looking for new talents, watching him, many people have started calling him a cricketer today. So friends, this was the story of the wall of Indian cricket, Rahul Dravid. I hope you will definitely like this article. Thank you very much for your valuable time.
